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Windows Patch Tuesday update might send a user to the BitLocker recovery screen 2024-07-24 at 18:18 By Richard Speed Not now, Microsoft Some Windows devices are presenting users with a BitLocker recovery screen upon reboot following the installation of July’s Patch Tuesday update.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer’s heir 2024-07-24 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson US national lab expects Discovery to deliver ‘three to five times more computational throughput’ Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a successor to the Frontier supercomputer, just a couple of years after

Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos 2024-07-24 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious Internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, an IT services provider contracted with the Department of Defense and other US government agencies, have been leaked.… This article is an excerpt from The

Security leaders share thoughts on Microsoft-Crowdstrike outage 2024-07-24 at 16:46 By Security leaders have shared their thoughts about the Microsoft-Crowdstrike outage and advice for other organizations to protect themselves. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence 2024-07-24 at 16:16 By Liam Proven China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale Analysis  Some of the common arguments for moving away from proprietary operating systems are about increasing personal (or corporate) freedom and decreasing expenditure, but there are bigger things

SEC establishes Interagency Securities Council (ISC) 2024-07-24 at 15:16 By The SEC has established the Interagency Securities Council (ISC) to support collaboration between federal, state and local agencies.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How a Trust Center Solves Your Security Questionnaire Problem 2024-07-24 at 15:01 By Security questionnaires aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re a recurring problem for security and sales teams. They bleed time from organizations, filling the schedules of professionals with monotonous, automatable work. But what if there were a way to reduce or even altogether

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals’ costs 2024-07-24 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Redmond comes out swinging as it files with Competition and Markets Authority Microsoft has responded to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe into public cloud services and licensing by insisting that its terms “do not meaningfully

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock 2024-07-24 at 14:31 By Richard Speed At least that’s what the app says… BORK!BORK!BORK!  One criticism frequently leveled at electric vehicles is about their batteries: “Won’t they wear out?”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor 2024-07-24 at 13:47 By Richard Speed A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit Former European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake has joined Axiom Space’s astronaut team as a strategic advisor supporting a potential all-UK human spaceflight mission.… This article is an excerpt from The

Patchwork Hackers Target Bhutan with Advanced Brute Ratel C4 Tool 2024-07-24 at 13:46 By The threat actor known as Patchwork has been linked to a cyber attack targeting entities with ties to Bhutan to deliver the Brute Ratel C4 framework and an updated version of a backdoor called PGoShell. The development marks the first time

How to Reduce SaaS Spend and Risk Without Impacting Productivity 2024-07-24 at 13:46 By There is one simple driver behind the modern explosion in SaaS adoption: productivity. We have reached an era where purpose-built tools exist for almost every aspect of modern business and it’s incredibly easy (and tempting) for your workforce to adopt these

Apple’s Clamshell iBook G3 at 25 – not just a pretty case 2024-07-24 at 12:32 By Richard Speed Remembering when laptops could be fun and fixable It is 25 years since Apple’s Clamshell iBook G3 arrived, replete with iMac styling and an innovation – optional Wi-Fi connectivity via Apple’s AirPort.… This article is an excerpt

CrowdStrike Explains Friday Incident Crashing Millions of Windows Devices 2024-07-24 at 12:31 By Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Wednesday blamed an issue in its validation system for causing millions of Windows devices to crash as part of a widespread outage late last week. “On Friday, July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of regular operations,

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen 2024-07-24 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021 The UK’s data protection watchdog has reprimanded a school in Essex for using facial recognition for canteen payments, nearly three years after other schools were warned about doing the same.…

‘Data embassies’ promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea 2024-07-24 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play Embassies are bubbles of sovereignty that local authorities cannot freely enter and in which certain communications are privileged

CISA Adds Twilio Authy and IE Flaws to Exploited Vulnerabilities List 2024-07-24 at 10:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2012-4792 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Defender Flaw Exploited to Deliver ACR, Lumma, and Meduza Stealers 2024-07-24 at 10:16 By A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited as part of a new campaign designed to deliver information stealers such as ACR Stealer, Lumma, and Meduza. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said it detected the stealer campaign targeting

Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit 2024-07-24 at 09:48 By Thomas Claburn Web puzzles don’t protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made 2024-07-24 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood Something called ‘Content Validator’ did not validate the content, and the rest is history CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in its own test software for the mass-crash-event it caused last week.… This article is an excerpt